PAKURANGA MEETING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 197, 23 August 1935, Page 4

PAKURANGA MEETING

TOMORROW’S FIXTURE OPEN HUNT CUP ISSUE (Special to “Chronicle.’’) AUCKLAND, Augu&t 20. The heavy rains turougiiout the winter months in the Auckland Province have seriously hampered training operations, and this accounts for the a. most total absence of last season’s good two-year-olds trc-iu the fields at Ellerslie next Saturday, where the Pakuranga Hunt Club will hold sway. Incidentally it is the club’s intention to pay two dividends on fields of jive, but the acceptances arc so good that this concession may not be necessary. Galilee was one of the province s leading two-year-olds last term, and therefore her presence in the spirit °n Saturday will invest that race with additional interest. Her trainer will not push her preparation in view of the fact that the Avondale classic is still a month elf, and this may be why he contemplates a trip to Marton and Wanganui after next Saturday’s fixture. Galilee has weight-for age in the Dunedin Handicap, and with the minimum a stone higher this will make her task anything but easy. The same stable will also supply other runners at Ellerslie on Saturday in Knight of Australia, Salesman, and Elit Acre, and as their training centre, Te Awamutu, is less susceptible to the effects of rain it is prc-bable that they will be more forward than most *f their opponents. As against this it is also possible that they may not be so much at home in the going as those they will meet. Salesman ran one really good race at the Great Northern Meeting, and he and Galilee WAJ' be tne best from the stable. The Hunt Chip Field. It is admitted all round that the field for next Saturday’s Pakuranga Hunt Cup is the bc»t that has ever been engaged in this race, and while there may not be anything in tne contest of the calibre of Valpeen or Beau Cavalier (both of whom started off their successiul careers by winning this event) the event has so many good ones of the hunters’ class that it is on of the mo*, open on the programme. The quintet heading the field of twelve acceptors are all recent winners, and this has tended to stimulate interest in the race. Kahunokc, the topweigot in the race, won on the first day of the Poverty Bay Meeting last month with 10.16, and C’apclla Abbey won on the second day with 10.3 (Kahunoke being among the ln the middle part or the North Island during recent weeks, Prosy Boy created a very favourable impression by winning the Hawke’s Bay and Mauawatu Hunt Cups in his inly two races at totaiisator meetings and a repetition of this form will mane him hard ta beat on Saturday. Prosy Boy seems certain to be favourite. Miss Fango won an amateur ri&ers’ race at Daunefirke and was placed in a similar event the day that Prosy Boy set out on his career, auj then captured the Eingitikei Hunt Cup* Sandy Dix, 9.11, narrow!v defeateJ Haakon (in receipt of one pound) in tne Hunt Club hurdles at the Great Northern Meeting, and was going exI remely well when he crashed in the Hunt Cup on the second day. This was his first chasing experience, and if he stands up on Saturday he may seriously bother some of the more-fancied contestants. Bells of Bow was a winner at Cambridge in the spring, Kvdbray was placed behind Miss Pango at Marton, and Ardinauning and Gascelle are promising local peiformers Kiltowyn not Fancied. Kiltowyn is one of the few really good handicap horses in the Auckland Province, but in his only start to date under winter conditions, on the final day of the Great Northern Meeting, he failed to handle the ground well. This confirmed the impression gained at Avondale in the autumn, where a bad patch of ground stopped him when he was nicely placed at the heme turn. With the going likely to be heavy next Saturday Kiltowyn will again be up against it, but a run should assist him in his preparation for races like the Avondale and Mitchelson Cups. Landlubber displayed fair form at the Winter Meeting at Trentham, and his condition should stand him in good stead when he takes c-n the hacks next •Saturday. He is a very free goer in his race* and therefore it came as rather surprising to northerners to see him having to come from the back of the field in his races at Trentham. He is in both hack events on Saturday, and while the shorter race will suit him h fc should go well in either. He is net too sound and this has militated against his being given a thorough preparation, but recent racing will stand to him.

It is very probable that Lord Vai will be the totaiisator favourite for the Jellico# Handicap after his Cornwall Handicap success and his forward and consistent running at Trentham. The track will be to his liking, and if he runs up to his best form he will certainly be difficult to beat. However, there are one or two promoted hacks in the field who will make him do his